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Practicing On Purpose: Promoting Personal Wellness And Professional Values In Legal Education, Gretchen Duhaime Nov 2012

Practicing On Purpose: Promoting Personal Wellness And Professional Values In Legal Education, Gretchen Duhaime

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Educating New Lawyers, Tara L. Casey Oct 2012

Educating New Lawyers, Tara L. Casey

Law Faculty Publications

In this article, the author discusses how law schools have been challenged recently to place greater emphasis on preparing students for the realities of legal practice through skills training and community-based learning.


Teaching Social Justice Lawyering: Systematically Including Community Legal Education In Law School Clinics, Margaret Martin Barry, A. Rachel Camp, Margaret E. Johnson, Catherine F. Klein, Lisa V. Martin Apr 2012

Teaching Social Justice Lawyering: Systematically Including Community Legal Education In Law School Clinics, Margaret Martin Barry, A. Rachel Camp, Margaret E. Johnson, Catherine F. Klein, Lisa V. Martin

All Faculty Scholarship

There is a body of literature on clinical legal theory that urges a focus in clinics beyond the single client to an explicit teaching of social justice lawyering. This Article adds to this emerging body of work by discussing the valuable role community legal education plays as a vehicle for teaching skills and values essential to single client representation and social justice lawyering. The Article examines the theoretical underpinnings of clinical legal education, community organizing and community education and how they influenced the authors’ design and implementation of community legal education within their clinics. It then discusses two projects designed …


Collaborative As Client: Lawyering For Effective Change, Robin S. Golden Jan 2012

Collaborative As Client: Lawyering For Effective Change, Robin S. Golden

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


New Roles To Solve Old Problems: Lawyering For Ordinary People In Today’S Context, Marsha M. Mansfield, Louise G. Trubek Jan 2012

New Roles To Solve Old Problems: Lawyering For Ordinary People In Today’S Context, Marsha M. Mansfield, Louise G. Trubek

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Re-Vision Quest: A Law School Guide To Designing Experiential Courses Involving Real Lawyering, Deborah Maranville, Mary A. Lynch, Susan L. Kay, Phyllis Goldfarb, Russell Engler Jan 2012

Re-Vision Quest: A Law School Guide To Designing Experiential Courses Involving Real Lawyering, Deborah Maranville, Mary A. Lynch, Susan L. Kay, Phyllis Goldfarb, Russell Engler

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lawyering In Place: Topographies Of Practice And Pleadings In Pittsburgh, 1775-1895, Bernard J. Hibbitts Jan 2012

Lawyering In Place: Topographies Of Practice And Pleadings In Pittsburgh, 1775-1895, Bernard J. Hibbitts

Articles

Even in the digital age, lawyering is always located. Lawyers live and work in physical space, and they deal with other lawyers and with clients who also have at least some measure of physicalized existence. Distracted and ofttimes overwhelmed by written records, legal historians have traditionally paid little attention to the physical environment of lawyering, but under the influence of contemporary cultural factors this is beginning to change. Indeed, in light of recent works on American, English and even ancient law it may be time to recognize the birth pangs of a new interdisciplinary field that we might label “legal …


What We Are Learning, Stephen Ellmann Jan 2012

What We Are Learning, Stephen Ellmann

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Law Schools And The Changing Face Of Practice, Peter Toll Hoffman Jan 2012

Law Schools And The Changing Face Of Practice, Peter Toll Hoffman

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Making Law Students Healthy, Skillful, And Wise, Peggy Cooper Davis, Ebony Coletu, Bonita London, Wentao Yuan Jan 2012

Making Law Students Healthy, Skillful, And Wise, Peggy Cooper Davis, Ebony Coletu, Bonita London, Wentao Yuan

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.